The ramblings of a yorkshire tyke » c# http://www.gennard.net/blog Life, Rants and Programming In A Blog Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:16:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C# http://www.gennard.net/blog/2009/12/cobol-vb-csharp-compared/ http://www.gennard.net/blog/2009/12/cobol-vb-csharp-compared/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:35:44 +0000 spgennard http://www.gennard.net/blog/?p=382 Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally :-) decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote from alex, along with a link to the “real” article itself.

Enjoy.

Alex Turner said:

A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#

Introduction

If you are a COBOL programmer wanting to learn C# or a VB programmer wanting to learn COBOL as a .net language (or any other combination of VB.net, C# and COBOL) then this is a good place to start.

Background

If you are a COBOL programmer wanting to learn C# or a VB programmer wanting to learn COBOL as a .net language (or any other combination of VB.net, C# and COBOL) then this is a good place to start.

It has often been noted that the richness of the COBOL language in its Micro Focus .net implementation is not well known. Robert Sales and I have worked on this document to help bring the language to peoples’ attention and to help people who need to work with COBOL on the .net platform.

Click here to continue reading the rest of the article…

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